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Reconstructing manufacturing technologies: microscale analysis on the first Greek metals 重建制造技术：对第一批希腊金属的微观分析

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Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105379

Valentine Martin

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Bronze Age vitreous materials from Central Italy: A first insight through an interdisciplinary and multi analytical approach 来自意大利中部的青铜器时代玻璃材料：通过跨学科和多分析方法的第一次洞察

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Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105396

Silvia Vettori , Francesca Giannetti , Eleonora Braschi , Riccardo Avanzinelli , Carlo Virili , Alessandro M. Jaia , Alessandro Zanini , Emma Cantisani

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Morphometric and aDNA study of charred plant remains found in the Monteverdi medieval castle, Civitella Paganico, Grosseto, Italy 意大利格罗塞托奇维特拉帕加尼科蒙特威尔第中世纪城堡中烧焦植物遗骸的形态计量学和dna研究

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Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105397

Claudio Milanesi , Alessandro Sebastiani , Alessandro Carabia , Rita Vignani , Francesca Antonucci , Simona Violino , Monica Scali , Giampiero Cai , Mauro Cresti , Claudia Moricca

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A reverse engineering analysis of iron finds from the Roman Age in Valle Camonica (Italy) 对意大利卡莫尼卡山谷罗马时代发现的铁进行逆向工程分析

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Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105390

Angelo Mazzù , Ileana Bodini , Simone Pasinetti , Alessandro Bettinsoli , Serena Solano

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First evidence of hippopotamus ivory exchange networks in north-eastern Iberian Peninsula: The object of Bòbila Madurell (Barcelona, Spain) 伊比利亚半岛东北部河马象牙交换网络的首个证据：Bòbila Madurell的对象（西班牙巴塞罗那）

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Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105375

José Miguel Morillo León , Africa Pitarch Martí , Silvia Albizuri , F.Javier López-Cachero , Araceli Martín Cólliga , Millan Mozota , Salvador Moyà-Solà , Jordi Nadal

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Stone tool knapping quality and raw material selection behaviour in the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor 内亚山地走廊地区石器采伐质量与原材料选择行为

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Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports Pub Date : 2025-09-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105388

Abay Namen , Patrick Schmidt

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Assessing nutrient inputs, sediment organic matter sources, and the potential for cyanobacteria in ancient water reservoirs at the Maya city of Ucanal, Guatemala: A glimpse at sustainable water management practices 评估危地马拉玛雅城市乌卡纳尔古水库的营养投入、沉积物有机质来源和蓝藻的潜力：一瞥可持续水管理实践

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Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105389

Jean D. Tremblay , Peter M.J. Douglas , Christina T. Halperin , Christian von Sperber , Jean-François Hélie , Laurianne Gauthier

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Review of the techno-economic trends from Cova de les Cendres and Coves de Santa Maira, Spain. The central Iberian Mediterranean area during the Tardiglacial and Early Postglacial 回顾西班牙Cova de les centres和Coves de Santa Maira的技术经济趋势。缓步期和后冰期早期伊比利亚地中海中部地区

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Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105376

Cristina Real , Margarita Vadillo Conesa , J. Emili Aura Tortosa , Juan Vicente Morales Pérez , Dídac Román , Valentín Villaverde

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Glass as a chronological indicator. Macroscopic and compositional features of Hellenistic, Roman and modern glass fragments from Idalion (Cyprus) 玻璃作为一个时间指示器。塞浦路斯伊达利翁（Idalion）希腊、罗马和现代玻璃碎片的宏观和成分特征

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Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105391

Giulia Fogarizzu , Pamela Gaber , Andrew M. Wright , Thilo Rehren

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They came from near and far – Strontium isotope analysis of people buried at the early Christian site of Varnhem, southwestern Sweden 他们来自远近——瑞典西南部瓦纳姆早期基督教遗址中埋葬的人的锶同位素分析

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Journal of Archaeological Science-Reports Pub Date : 2025-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105387

Crista Wathen-Avila , Fanny Bengtsson , Sven Isaksson , Maria Vretemark , Gunilla Eriksson , Kerstin Lidén

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